A few weeks back I went to reboot my mac mini after having done a system update. Prior to that I had purchased and attached to the system a 1TB external firewire/usb hard drive, as I use the system primarily as an HTPC. Boy was that not cool. I had not used the superdrive for a little while after attaching the new drive. Upon reboot went to try and burn a audio cd for my car. That didn't work at all. I have an external usb dvd/cd burner. Plugged that in. Also no go. So I called tech support. They had me reset the pram. All went well. Tested the superdrive while just having reset the pram. All was well in burning land. Mind you I sometimes have the system attached via a kvm to the rest of my computers. This setup was using a ps2 keyboard and mouse attached to the mini via a ps/2 -> usb converter. More on this later in the next installment.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Blender - 3D modeling, animation, and rendering program
Blender is a very feature rich and at this point mature and stable 3D program that also happens to be free. You can find Blender here: Click Me
Friday, February 16, 2007
BackPack Information Organizer
From the same people that brought you BaseCamp, BackPack is a great informational organization tool that is web based. There are both free and paid versions of the service.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Basecamphq.com Project Management System
The following Basecamphq.com is not exactly a program. Basecamp is a web based project management system. They offer both free and paid services. It's very easy to use, and easy to setup.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Mnemosyne Password Generator
This is a very handy freeware application for OS X. Using a passphrase and a username it will generate a random password. You can then regenerate the password so long as you remember the passphrase you can recreate the password for any username you've used in the past. Mnemosyne
Sunday, February 4, 2007
WriteRoom Text Editor
A tool I find quite helpful when trying to compose text documents without all of the visual distraction many other programs can have is WriteRoom. The program provides you with an otherwise blank canvas with which you can write your masterpiece on. The program though not free, is quite inexpensive, and can truly help the creative process. www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom
Saturday, February 3, 2007
CocoaMySQL
Ever wanted a lightweight yet powerful way to manage your MySQL databases in OS X, but don't want to have to use the command line? CocoaMySQL is such a product. Built off cocoa, capable of managing both local as well as remote databases. It can connect remotely directly or through an SSH tunnel. Best of all it's also free. cocoamysql.sourceforge.net
Ecto blogging software.
Do you run a blog? Do you need to update multiple blogs?
Ecto lets you post to multiple blogs on multiple blogging engines without the need to run each blogging service in a browser window.
http://kula.jp/software/ecto/
AdiumX Multi Chat Client
Need a great IM program that will handle just about any IM service you can think of, AdiumX does just that.
www.adiumx.com
Friday, February 2, 2007
NeoOffice
If you've ever had the need to write a proper text documents, use a spreadsheet, or any other office application, but haven't wanted to spend the cash and found using OpenOffice in X11 mode cumbersome, NeoOffice may be right for you. NeoOffice contains all of the power of OpenOffice, however NeoOffice has aqua/cocoa integration. No longer will you need to run an X11 service just to finish up that school paper or work document. NeoOffice is like it's predecessor, opensource, available from www.neooffice.org.
